Each web-site comes complete with hosting at a cost of £5.00 a month.  All Online Ventures Web-Site purchase clients must obey the general hosting terms detailed below, failure to do this could result in suspension of service and in turn termination.  This however does not mean you will lose your web-site it simply means you will be required to find a new web host.  Please note that suspensions are extremely rare and usually only occur when a user uses their Online-Ventures web-space for illegal purposes i.e. Pornography, racial/abusive material, spam and piracy.

If any user requires more bandwidth or web-space we can allocate some more for free.  However if any web-site requires large amounts i.e. more than 300MB of web-space and 2GB of Bandwidth we do charge the following:

1 Block of 50MB Web-Space: - ¨15

1 Block of 500MB Bandwidth: - ¨40

You are free to move host at any time, we do not charge a release fee and are only too happy to assist as much as we can with the transfer process.

As a provider of web site hosting, and other Internet-related services, Online Ventures offers its clients, and their customers and users, the means to disseminate a wealth of public, private, commercial, and non-commercial information. Online Ventures respects that the Internet provides a forum for free and open discussion and dissemination of information, however, when there are competing interests at issue, Online Ventures reserves the right to take certain preventative or corrective actions. In order to protect these competing interests, Online Ventures has developed an Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP"), which supplements and explains certain terms of each customer's respective service agreement and is intended as a guide to the customer's rights and obligations when utilizing Online Ventures services. This AUP will be revised from time to time. A customer's use of Online Ventures after changes to the AUP are posted on Online Ventures web site, Online Ventures, will constitute the customer's acceptance of any new or additional terms of the AUP that result from those changes.

When information is disseminated through the Internet, they also must keep in mind that Online Ventures does not review, edit, censor, or take responsibility for any information its clients may create. When users place information on the Internet, they have the same liability as other authors for copyright infringement, defamation, and other harmful speech. Also, because the information they create is carried over Online Venture's network and may reach a large number of people, including both clients and non-clients of Online Ventures, clients' postings to the Internet may affect other clients and may harm Online Venture's goodwill, business reputation, and operations. For these reasons, clients violate Online Ventures policy and the service agreement when they, their customers, affiliates, or subsidiaries engage in the following prohibited activities:

• Spamming
• Adult Material
• Defamatory or Abusive Language
• Illegal or Unauthorized Access to Other Computers or Networks
• Background Running Programs
• Distribution of Internet Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, or Other Destructive Activities
• Facilitating a Violation of this AUP
• Other Illegal Activities
• Other Activities

• Any site whose revenue is gained in part or whole from its adult content.
• Photos or videos showing frontal nudity on either men or women for non-scientific or non-artistic purposes.
• Revenue-generating hyperlinks to sites who violate policy #1.

Background Daemons in general are prohibited on Online Venture's servers, including, but not limited to, IRC bots, eggdrop, BitchX, XiRCON, warez sites and any other program that interferes with normal server operation.

Online Ventures will be the sole arbiter of what constitutes a violation of the above policy.

Engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that Online Ventures determines to be harmful to its clients, operations, reputation, goodwill, or customer relations.

As we have pointed out, the responsibility for avoiding the harmful activities just described rests primarily with the client. Online Ventures will not, as an ordinary practice, monitor the communications of its client to ensure that they comply with Online Ventures policy or applicable law. When Online Ventures becomes aware of harmful activities, however, it may take any action to stop the harmful activity, including but not limited to, removing information, shutting down a web site, implementing screening software designed to block offending transmissions, denying access to the Internet, or take any other action it deems appropriate.

Online Ventures also is concerned with the privacy of on-line communications and web sites. In general, the Internet is neither more nor less secure than other means of communication, including mail, facsimile, and voice telephone service, all of which can be intercepted and otherwise compromised. As a matter of prudence, however, Online Ventures urges its clients to assume that all of their on-line communications are insecure. Online Ventures cannot take any responsibility for the security of information transmitted over Online Ventures facilities.

Online Ventures will not intentionally monitor private electronic mail messages sent or received by its clients unless required to do so by law, governmental authority, or when public safety is at stake. Online Ventures may, however, monitor its service electronically to determine that its facilities are operating satisfactorily. Also, Online Ventures may disclose information, including but not limited to, information concerning a client, a transmission made using our network, or a web site, in order to comply with a court order, subpoena, summons, discovery request, warrant, statute, regulation, or governmental request. Online Ventures assumes no obligation to inform the client that client information has been provided and in some cases may be prohibited by law from giving such notice. Finally, Online Ventures may disclose client information or information transmitted over its network where necessary to protect Online Ventures and others from harm, or where such disclosure is necessary to the proper operation of the system.

We hope this AUP is helpful in clarifying the obligations of Internet users, including Online Ventures and its clients, as responsible members of the Internet. Any complaints about a client's violation of this AUP should be sent to abuse@online-ventures.co.uk.

(A) Fairness to all

A Virtual Server is shared. As such, there are many accounts per machine. In all fairness, Online-Ventures cannot allow one or two clients to use all of the System resources on a shared machine and have all other clients on the machine suffer because of it. Excessive CPU usage by one or more clients causes extreme slowness in all areas: FTP, Telnet, Web Sites and more. If the CPU usage gets too far out of hand, all sites hosted on the machine will return Errors and not be accessible in any way.